November 13th, 2010

The Unique Genius Superheroes Interview Series is about ordinary people who have figured out how to make money through their purpose & passions to create fulfillment and freedom.

Susan Kennedy aka SARK, is an artist who’s had a fascinating and tumultuous journey to figure out how to share her gifts with the world. You’ll immediately recognize her trademark colorful, handwritten style after the first time you see it! Think my sketches, on steroids times a bajillion 🙂

SARK also just published a new book, her 16th, titled “Glad No Matter What: Transforming Losses & Change Into Gifts & Opportunity“. It’s awesome. Have you ever seen a handwritten, published book? That’s SARK’s style. And while she’s crazily creative, she’s found an excellent groove in mixing her creative right brain stuff with left brain processes.

Rather than trying to explain more why she’s so awesome, just glance through the list of bullet points of stuff we covered in the interview… (for example, how can someone “opt out” of the money system and live on barter and trade for 10 years??)…pretty fascinating!

Why she calls herself a “human experiment”

Why you shouldn’t avoid feelings like loneliness or anger (and how to deal with them)

Why SARK’s work is important to Unique Genius

How being molested as a young girl planted the seeds of her Unique Genius, leading her to an early mentor

How – at 10 years old – she save the life of her childhood mentor with small gifts, and realized “I’m supposed to be a beacon of hope”

How SARK opted out of the “money system” to live on barter & trade for 10 years

Great advice from her grandfather: “do everything you can think of doing now, so you know what you don’t want to do the rest of your life” (SARK went on to have 250 jobs between ages 14 and 26!)

How, at 35, SARK decided it was time to share all her art and gifts with the world and first turned her art into money

Why SARK’s first $2.5 million business wasn’t fulfilling or profitable

SARK’s best three tips staying uber-creative

About SARK’s “Micro movement wheel of delight” (I love how she reframes even baby steps into fun!)